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  • Francis Lockier No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad.
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • James A. Froude No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Annie Besant No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • B. W. Powe No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 28
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Randolph Churchill No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
    Randolph Churchill
    British journalist and writer (1911 - 1968)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Lazarus Long No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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  • Walter Savage Landor No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • William Hazlitt No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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